Chapter 140

“Jason, what’s up with you?” Evadne looked puzzled and surprised.

She always thought highly of Jason, but there he was looking all beat up and lost, eyes bloodshot, lips pale as a sheet, like a puppy left homeless in a downpour.

“Jason, are you here because of Elspeth?”

Ca**ius came up to Evadne, his steps steady, his eyes soft, as he wiped his handsome hands with a pristine white silk cloth.

Evadne glanced at him and saw specks of blood on the cloth.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry!” Jason kept apologizing, bowing deeply to them.

Just as Evadne was puzzled, Arnold gave her a buzz.

“Arnold?”

“Sis, Elspeth just left my place.”

Arnold’s voice was heavy with resignation, seemingly self–blaming as he said, “My team and I have been gathering evidence on Elspeth’s abuse of power and bribery, but she’s way ahead of us, shifting all blame to Earl. Frederic got her a really slick lawyer, Cedric Dempsey. That guy is ruthless; he knows exactly how to exploit legal loopholes. My evidence fell short, so I had to let Elspeth go.”

“It’s alright, Arnold, you’ve done your best. And we hit our target, as long as we’ve got the Westguard project under our belt. Everything else, we can take it slow.”

Evadne was calm, but those around her were all fuming as they were itching to give Elspeth a good thrashing.

Elspeth was no saint, but Evadne knew that they could take their time dealing with that woman.

J

At that point, Frederic was still head over heels for Elspeth, he would surely go all out to help her. Escalating the conflict between two big conglomerates for a single project, wasting resources, just wasn’t worth it at that time.

“Uh, Evadne, Jason already rang me up, he seemed quite upset. Comfort him a bit, this has nothing to do with him. He cares too much about your feelings, afraid that you’re upset, so he’s under a lot of stress,” Arnold sighed.

“I got it.”

the full picture of what had happened, her gaze at Jason was complicated,

were red as he was ashamed and couldn’t accept that his

case, he was so mad that he stormed into Cedric’s law firm and had a big blowout with him in his

Chairman Emeric’s help, hiring our dad as a legal advisor for the conglomerate, protecting us, how could our parents have

for over twenty years, but

our whole family has to kowtow to them! And besides, our dad has won so many cases for Chairman Emeric over the years, any debt of gratitude has been paid off! I’m a professional lawyer, to me, everyone is a client. If it’s a case I can handle, and the terms are right, I’ll take it, whether it’s the Abernathy group or the Ashbourne group, it simply doesn’t matter to me! You, on the other hand, our parents worked hard

words stung Jason

his whole heart, but his family was pulling

really couldn’t face

are you

shoulders, gently shaking him, “Don’t blame yourself, and don’t pick a fight with your family over this. Elspeth is an insignificant baddie; how could she

voice

taking on Elspeth’s case, I totally understand this,

Mr. Cedric has the right to stick to his professional ethics and take on the Abernathy group’s case. If the Ashbourne group

his

gently stroking her

But first,

with intelligence, narrowing slightly, “George said that only Acacia’s mother Una knows where the child is, so

then asked, “And what about Acacia? What’s your

drive her mad before I make

she about to get engaged to Thaddeus? How can we make her fall from

Thaddeus really has lost his marbles,” Ca**ius was deeply shocked recalling

as a bat for a while now. No matter, I’ve found myself again, and I want this lousy

her phone, found the photo of Avery and then she had snapped. “Here, check out this guy, do you recognize him? I was nearly stabbed by George the other

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exclaimed in surprise. “Really? Then

mystery. The

curiosity piqued as she recalled the man’s smooth,

desire for

closer to her, examining the

he turned to look at Evadne in

really don’t know

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